Today is the first day of ESWC09. Since we’ve been here since Friday, we have already been preparing our presentations as well as exploring the surroundings a bit (by bike ). The KiWi has already been at many nice places, as you can see in the slideshow:
Today is still relaxing for us, just [...]
Google hat gestern eine neue Web-Anwendung, Wave, angekündigt, eine Vereinigung von Email, Chat und Blog. Es macht Wellen, so vielversprechend die Anwendung aussieht. Im Browser zeigt Wave Kontakte aus dem Adressbuch mit Fotos und “Kommunikationsströme”, oder Wellen, an. Wave ist aber nicht nur Textnachrichen zugänglich, sondern auch Bilder, die mit Drag-and-Drop auf die Welle gebracht [...]
Read More..>>Jimmy Wales, der Mitgründer von Wikipedia, spricht in einem neulichen Interview über die Möglichkeiten von Wikis in der Werbung. Interessant sind zum einen das neue Verhalten der Käufer, zum anderen die Implikationenen für die Gestaltung von sozialen Medien. FB
Read More..>>Über die sozialen Medien verbreiten sich radikale Veränderungen der Gesellschaft: Kommunale Lebe-, Handlungs- und Arbeitsweise verbreiten sich. In einem neulich erschienen Artikel von Wired sieht Kevin Kelly in diesen Veränderungen einen “neuen Sozialismus”: “The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online” Trotz der dem Stil von Wired entsprechend provokativen Bezeichnung stellt der Artikel eine [...]
Read More..>>Just in time for ESWC09, we are proud to be able to release the 4th KiWi prerelease (0.4)! Again, this is the most stable KiWi version ever and contains many bug fixes and performance improvements. While the focus has been on stability and usability, the following new features have been added to KiWi:
KiWi now has [...]
Read More..>>It is less than one week now until ESWC09 starts near Heraklion, Crete, and this will be the first conference where KiWi will be massively present. In this post, I’d like to summarise where and what you will be able to see next week:
the Semantic Wiki workshop on Monday will see a number of KiWi [...]
Read More..>>Being part of OSUM should also mean taking part on Open-source development or at least improving your development skills. I was thinking about the ways one can begin with such development; not everyone is ready to delve into the sea of source code of long developed open source projects. An attractive way can be participation on programming competitions or doing an internship for some time.
Let’s take a look at the possibilities I know about. There are many and new are appearing all the time. I’m sure you’ve heard about at least a few of them.
First Sun contests:
There are also many other opportunities to compete in development in the Internet. In some of the next posts I will try to list a few of them. By the way, if you know about some interesting competition, post a comment!
By the way, I know about at least one Sun-related contest that is in planning now. It is realted to the research project KiWi – Knowledge in a Wiki where Sun Microsystems is one of the partners that provide use cases. The KiWi coding challenge is likely to be announced soon. I can’t tell you any details but you can at least take a look at a running KiWi system demo at http://showcase.kiwi-project.eu/KiWi
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